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IAVA “BEST AND WORST” OF CONGRESS, WHO LOVES AND WHO HATES AMERICA’S VETERANS
WHO SUPPORTS, WHO BETRAYS AMERICA'S FIGHTING FORCES (CHECK HOW JOHN McCAIN SCORES)
By the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
www.IAVA.org
Please go to their site for...
GORDON DUFF: HO HUM, MORE WIKILEAKS “CHICKENFEED”
LAMEST WIKILEAK SO FAR...IS ISRAEL BEHIND IT?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
The new Wikileaks claims the US undereported by 15,000, the deaths of Iraqi...
Bruce: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
I used to wonder vaguely in my mid-teens why everyone in the world was not instantly transformed to a place of paradise after listening...
SEN. DORGAN: DOD IG REPORT CONFIRMS PENTAGON DROPPED THE BALL ON CHEMICAL EXPOSURE OF...
- Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) reacts to an Inspector General's Report concluding the Army’s response to the exposure of hundreds...
Fixing the VA and VBA: An Ongoing Campaign
- Following a string of successes ranging from PTSD to expanded Agent Orange presumtives, the fight to creating new veteran-friendly agencies continues. Faster than...
Fascism – no longer a taboo in Israel
- Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces “awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is...
McMahon Stands Up for Veterans, Receives Top Grade from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Group
- Rep. Michael E. McMahon was placed on the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Congressional Report Card “A List” for his dedication...
Media Matters: Wishing for Obama’s assassination won’t get you fired from Fox News
- Fox News has a strange set of journalistic ethics -
From Media Matters:
The media topic of the week was the firing of Juan Williams...
US Media Hides US War of Aggression’s Toll on Fallujah’s Babies and Adults
- Mission Accomplished? -
Military Orders FRAGO 242 and FRAGO 039 Known at Highest Levels Of U.S Gov
- Another reason to avoid war: Good, dedicated people do awful things. All war is terror, generally WE OUGHT NOT wage it unless WE ABSOUTELY...
Hawking radiation glimpsed in artificial black hole
- You might expect black holes to be, well, black, but several decades ago Stephen Hawking calculated that they should emit light. Now, for the...
INTERVIEW WITH JAMAL KRAYEM KANJ: AUTHOR CHILDREN OF CATASTROPHE
Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America
Author Jamal Kanj talks about life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon....
‘IF AMERICANS KNEW’ MADE THE ADL’S ANTI-ISRAEL LIST!
We are pleased that the ADL has noticed that If Americans Knew is influencing the debate on Israel
IF AMERICANS KNEW
The Anti-Defamation League...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 965-10
October 22, 2010
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CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
Advanced Aerospace Engineering Concepts, La Verne, Calif. (FA8530-11-D-001); Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc., Birmingham, Ala. (FA8530-11-D-002); Engineering & Software Systems...
Thank You Australia For Supporting 9/11 Truth
NEARLY FOUR OUT OF FIVE AUSTRALIANS: "9/11 A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY"
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
"76.7% of Australians cite 9/11 government conspiracy in poll. How can a government get...
What the Afghans Want
Reconciliation itself isn’t the problem. Giving reconciled criminals a legitimate place in the Afghan government - who are paid by foreign interests, are directed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and have never been held to account for their crimes against the Afghan people - is the problem.
Veterans Stand Guard Over Christian Flag in N.C. Town
The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts. The relatively obscure emblem has become omnipresent because of one place it can't appear: flying above a war memorial in a public park.
TacTalk: Break Glass In Time Of War
Are you the kind of guy that most people don't get? Why are so many of our veterans committing suicide? Why are they so overwhelmed with depression? Simple... people don't understand them and it makes them crazy.
Is it time to break the cycle?
- Families face uncertain future and no clear way forward in a system where money and pettiness rule -
By Mike Jamieson
The government is a...
Tea Party: “Is There a Difference Between Cinco de Mayo and Chinese New Year?”
The mid term elections of 2010 have been memorable for sheer goofiness as well as for the corporate funded blanket of ugly, false and misleading advertising that has been lowered over the public airwaves. With the addition of a mountainous heap of money provided by greedy plutocrats, election cycles have become national holidays from reason and sanity that fall between their mates, Halloween and Thanksgiving.
EVERYTHING VIBRATES
Good, Better, Best Vibrations
By J. Speer-Williams
Someone once wrote ...
"The truth has a certain elegance and restraint to it. Sometimes it can be a...
ISRAEL’S MURDER OF AMERICAN CITIZEN FURKAN DOGAN
By Tim King - Salem-News
Today would have been the young man's 19th birthday.
(SALEM, Ore.) - Furkan Doğan shot the Israeli military first,...
Troops with combat stress discharged, not treated, Senator Bond charges
he military has been discharging troops who are suffering from combat stress, instead of providing treatment, according to Missouri Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond and several veterans advocates
Top Corporations Aid U.S. GOP Chamber of Commerce Campaign, Oligarchy in the U.S.A
- Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a national advertising campaign to weaken...
Big Gifts to G.O.P. Groups Push Donor to New Level
- Bob Perry, a wealthy home builder from Texas, has given $7 million since September to American Crossroads, the group Karl Rove helped start...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki, Sessions Trying To Limit "Bureaucracy" For PTSD Sufferers. WDHN-TV Dothan, AL (10/21, 10:06 p.m. CT) broadcast that on Thursday, Pete Landrum,...
Veterans Honored at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center
A picture really does say a thousand words at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, SC. Lining the hallways of the...
Al Qaida’s Affiliates; The Myth Lingers
The plot of al Qaida story was so simple, few Muslim mujahideen with a militant edge targeting any western object. a theme that has lately been the funniest plot for talented filmmakers throughout the world from England cinema to Bollywood India. In that way we lately began to hear of al Qaida’s affiliates.
The U.S. Finally Joins the League of (Corrupt) Nations
Tarnished by financial scandals and the influence of money in politics [dare I say corruption] over the past year the United States has dropped out of the most recent “top 20″ in a global league table of least corrupt nations according to Transparency International but there's a bright side to our new-found notoriety. We no longer need to pretend we are a shining example of democracy, liberty, and fiscal integrity.Words: 1135
FRANKLIN LAMB: AHMEDINEJAD GALVANIZES LEBANON’S PALESTINIANS
Franklin Lamb,
Shatila Camp, Lebanon
In the days since Iran’s president Ahmadinejad completed his visit to Lebanon, and given the continuing lively discussion across the local...
VETERANS: Own the World’s #1 Rated Internet and Technology Franchise
WSI is an international network in existence for 15 years. Being the world’s largest Internet consulting firm, WSI has been ranked as the #1 Internet Market Services Franchise in Entrepreneur Magazine’s January 2010 Franchise 500 – an honor maintained for 10 years in a row.
Own the World’s #1 Rated Internet and Technology Franchise
WSI is an international network in existence for 15 years. Being the world’s largest Internet consulting firm, WSI has been ranked as the #1 Internet Market Services Franchise in Entrepreneur Magazine’s January 2010 Franchise 500 – an honor maintained for 10 years in a row. Additionally, WSI ranks #13 in the Top Home Based Franchises and among the top 50 Americas Top Global Franchises. WSI is also ranked 56th in the Top 500 listing for internet marketing services with more than 1500 consultants in over 80 countries. The WSI brand possesses 17 production centers spread through out the world, permitting clients to develop coherent strategies for targeted markets
VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY BREAKS SIEGE AND ENTERS GAZA TO JUBILANT CROWDS
The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza.
Amidst scenes...
Republican Senate hopeful Ron Johnson: Dismisses VA committment to homeless veterans as “details” –...
- Asked what the Department of Veteran's Affairs' responsibility is to homeless veterans, Johnson declared that his election fight against Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 964-10
October 21, 2010
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CONTRACTS
NAVY
InfoEdge Technology, Inc., Austin, Texas, is being awarded a $44,505,174 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for litigation support services for the Naval Litigation...
TERROR CELL LEADER FACES DEATH SENTENCE IN ISRAEL
HOLOCAUST DENIER AND ANTI-SEMITE THREATENS TO DESTROY ISRAEL
"MORE DANGEROUS THAN AHMADINEJAD.."
Jerusalem - (VT) Reports of the capture of a known bin Laden associate has...
DECLARATION: NO MUSLIMS PROVEN INVOLVED IN 9/11
On the basis of the study "No evidence that Muslims hijacked planes on 9/11" by Elias Davidsson (2008), that we have carefully examined, and other similar studies, we undersigned are now convinced that the U.S. authorities did not prove [beyond reasonable doubt*] their account on the mass murder of September 11, 2001, in particular their claim that Muslims/Arabs committed this crime.
Citizens United: Before, After, What’s Next?
The Citizens United case was a game changer in terms of money being spent by outside groups on the 2010 elections—but the question is, how much? This primer (included below) provides a detailed explanation of the before and after, and also includes Sunlight’s policy recommendations for new disclosures needed to ensure that that the midterms don’t become a practice run for even more massive spending in 2012.
GORDON DUFF: 9/11 POLL IN AUSTRALIA, SUPPORT KEVIN BRACKEN
TRADES HALL PRESIDENT, BRAKEN, SUPPORTS 9/11 TRUTH...SUPPORT HIM
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
9/11. Its time we all quit pretending. 9/11 stinks. Even Fox News...
GORDON DUFF: OHIO DEM ACCUSED OF BILKING DISABLED VET
MARCY KAPTUR ACCUSED OF "CHEATING" VET ON MEMORIAL PROJECT FUNDING
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
(Toledo) - Suit was filed in Federal District Court against...
College Educators for Veterans Higher Education (CEVHE) Formed
Far too VT encounter a variety of non-financial problems going to college that require substantial adjustment as they make the transition adapting from military to college life.
MAIDHC Ó CATHAIL: THE UNITED STATES FIGHTS AND PAYS FOR ISRAEL’S WARS
Interview by Kourosh Ziabari --
Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published Irish author and journalist. He has been living in Japan since 1999....